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Participants Selected for the American History, Atlantic and Pacific Project

AHA Staff, October 2012

The American Historical Association is pleased to announce the names of 24 faculty members (from 12 two-year institutions across the United States) who have been selected to take part in the "American History, Atlantic and Pacific" project. The National Endowment for the Humanities is supporting this project through a three-year agreement with the AHA, as part of their "Bridging Cultures at Community Colleges" initiative.

Participants in this project will work to create or revise U.S. history courses—especially the popular U.S. history survey course—with lessons, units, and other work that deepens teaching on the United States in the world, with particular reference to the Atlantic and Pacific rims.

These 12 institutions were chosen out of a very strong applicant pool of 26 community colleges from all across the United States. This three-year project will start in January 2013 with a week-long institute at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California. For more information about participating faculty, and the project itself, please visit our Bridging Cultures web page.

William Deverell (Univ. of Southern California and Huntington Library) and Philip Morgan (Johns Hopkins Univ.) will be the project leaders, while Cheryll Ann Cody (Houston Community Coll.) and Kevin Reilly (Raritan Valley Community Coll.) will serve as project advisers. Robert Townsend (AHA) is the project director and Nike Nivar (AHA) is the project assistant.